Art: TWO IN ONE BODY

Way back in the 1920s, a black scholar named Alain Locke remarked that
"in the case of the American Negro, the sense of race is stronger
than that of nationality." And yet, Locke pointed out, "some
of the most characteristic American things are Negro or Negroid,
derivatives of the folk life of this darker tenth of the
population." Small wonder, then, that the greatest American
Negroes feel torn at times.

An early beacon of black culture in America, W.E.B.

DuBois, died self-exiled in Ghana just six years ago. DuBois composed
the poem that here accompanies and reveals the hidden thunder of
Bellows' Both...